That is soooo strange!I own a pair of ”true surround” headphones that give a similar Frankenstein look:
For those wondering, you feed it optical and it has its own decoder/amp it has 5 drivers in the headband send audio down the dual tubes to the ear cups which house the LFE drivers (cups can flip open if you need to head your surroundings):
Me ~10yrs ago thought it was cool, probably used them 5 times, not great (sending audio thru tubes does not do wonders for sound quality).
Ha!
How the Dickens do you tune cables by ear, that's the funniest thing I've heard all day.....it just keeps getting better!
That's also the next funniest thing I've heard all day! I like the tongue-in-cheek though!
That's also very funny in at least 2 ways!
Now THAT'S funny..... and quite real! That person is a hero though, we should probably fund the re-stocking fee if it doesn't cost as much as the tow rope!
Definitely men. To the extent wealth and income are correlated with age, probably the median buyer is older than the average man. I would guess mostly men who can afford to drop the cash without much impact on the rest of the budget. Not sure about the race part, but I bet that dimension of the demographic is not siloed as you assume.
It takes some effort to make them fit and sound right. No doubt about that. However, having owned and heard about 100 different headphones, I can tell you it's worth the effort. These are the most fun sounding headphones I've ever heard.
Well, it would definitely be interesting for Amir to measure them as you describe the fitment, "just touching". Would be interesting to see the effect on the frequency response tonality & also the peakiness....seems like a hell of way to do it though, you'd think they'd be so much scope for different placement & variation that you'd think it would produce erratic results.
I have no doubt that it will produce crazy results.
If people do want the spatial effect plus great tonality with EQ, Sennheiser HD800(s) is actually a good buy. AKG K371 can get near perfect tonality easily with EQ but there is hardly any spatial effect.Clealy you can't put a fair price on art
By objective performance measures and reasoning, in any headphones above 1000USD you are paying for economic inefficiencies of low volume niche products, because under ~1000USD you can get most high-tech AirPods Max or plenty top quality dynamic and planar headphones. Even for under 500USD you can get both the build and sound quality. Then with just minor compromises great headphones sell for under 200USD. But people can always dream to have something better... Because you deserve the best and you only live once, right? right??
So Amir, what is your latest opinion on how headphones get great/exaggerated spatial effects like what you experienced with HD800s and 1266TC？Time to care! We are watching.
I did
and still considering.
Hmm, well maybe not seeing as you like them so much when worn like that.........in terms of maybe it removes the peakiness in the treble.....but I can see it resulting in wildly different tonality based on the tiniest changes in "just touching" which would throw water on the hope as it would mean an unreliable headphone to wear to get consistent listening results.
I recommend to not measure with a gap, but with a light seal. Just touching. Or even better, follow the video posted above to adjust on your own head to find the adjustment and fit that sounds the best for you. Then see if you can find a similar position and fit for the actual test. For those of us that like these headphones, we find we can adjust the bass, positioning of vocals, etc by making adjustments. There always seems to be a "sweet spot" with different recordings though. Thanks for taking the time to test.
I think the reason that no target is displayed on the speaker frequency response graphs is that we all know that a flat Anechoic Response is the ideal, so that's easy to visualise on the graphs, so no need to actually draw in the target. However, on headphones the ideal frequency response is certainly not flat and is in fact quite complicated in it's shape in comparison to that of speakers......therefore you have to draw in the target (Harman target) on headphones because otherwise you wouldn't be able to visualise the balance and deviations of the headphones frequency response, you wouldn't be able to put it into perspective. It's clear that not everyone likes or should like the Headphone Harman Curve, but research shows that most people prefer it on average....so it's not unreasonable to use it as a target.....if you didn't use any target it would be very hard to discuss and visualise differences between headphones, whereas with speakers this is very easy.....it's just a visualised flat line on the Anechoic Frequency Response of the speaker.
If you can afford them, and don't mind open-back, I would get them. Headphones can be such a compromise compared to speakers. Having these "fun" effects takes enjoyment to another level and is worth it in my book.
